Enterprise resource planning from IBM and SAP

The goal - Streamline business processes

An enterprise-wide view and effective collaboration of mission-critical information can lead to enhanced productivity and increased sales. The enterprise resource planning solution from IBM and SAP offers companies a comprehensive solution for managing business processes, including financials, human resources and operations and corporate services.

The advantage - Decades of experience

IBM and SAP have helped many businesses, no matter what size or industry, implement new e-business solutions.

• For over 30 years, companies have leveraged the partnership between IBM and SAP to optimize their business processes and increase overall productivity.
• With over 2,900 enterprise resource planning projects implemented and nearly 12,000 trained SAP professionals, IBM has the experience you require.
• SAP employs over 28,900 people in more than 50 countries, and is one of the world's largest independent software suppliers.

The benefits - Internally and externally

The enterprise resource planning solution from IBM and SAP can help you administer new strategies quickly and successfully while managing business performance across your enterprise. We can help you:

• Enhance customer retention through improved customer service and access to enterprise information.
• Utilize your assets more effectively to enhance business processes both internally and externally.
• Work in real time to make faster decisions and respond more quickly to market opportunities.
• Offer your workforce what they need, including an integrated network and access to knowledge, data and enterprise resources anytime, anywhere.

The ROI - Streamline and save

The enterprise resource planning solution from IBM and SAP can help your business:

• Improve communications between internal and external workforces, streamlining business processes and saving money.
• Gain better control over administrative and operational environments, helping increase profitability.
• Translate your business strategy into everyday action and transform business data into real-time insight for better market analysis and more profitable decision making.

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The goal - Streamline business processes

Efficient collaboration and access to information can help your workforce become more proactive and enhance productivity. The enterprise resource planning solution from IBM and SAP can give you more control over your assets, and business processes such as financial supply chain management and profitability assessments of employees, departments and customers.

The advantage - Decades of experience

For over 30 years, companies have leveraged the partnership between IBM and SAP to strengthen their enterprise and increase overall productivity. We offer:

• The experience of IBM with over 2,900 enterprise resource planning projects implemented and nearly 12,000 trained SAP professionals.
• SAP employs over 28,900 people in more than 50 countries, and is one of the world's largest independent software suppliers.
• A proven track record of successfully implementing solutions for more than 9,000 joint SAP R/3 and SAP Business Suite customers around the world, across public and private sectors.

The benefits - Internally and externally

The enterprise resource planning solution from IBM and SAP can help you in virtually every area of your internal and external operational needs.

Key functional areas of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning include:

• Analytics
• Financials
• Human Resources
• Operations
• Corporate services

With implementation of our solution, your company can:

• Monitor and control performance and transactional information through completely integrated operations across your enterprise.
• Provide business managers with access to relevant business information through financial portal solutions.
• Optimize a range of HR services and processes necessary to efficiently run your human resources department more effectively and with greater results.
• Streamline logistics operations, optimizing your purchasing, sales, production and change management processes.

The approach - IBM and SAP at work

Companies have looked to IBM and SAP to help them with virtually all their enterprise resource planning needs. We can help you transform your organization by implementing a solution that integrates your core business processes into a streamlined, enterprise-wide system.

Utilizing award-winning IBM hardware and middleware, along with leading SAP Enterprise Resource Planning software from SAP, we can help you attain full enterprise resource planning functionality from a single solution. All while leveraging your existing assets.

The financial advantage - Streamline and save

The enterprise resource planning solution from IBM and SAP can help your business:

• Improve communications between internal and external workforce, streamlining business processes and saving money.
• Gain better control over your administrative and operational environments, helping increase profitability.
• Preserve intellectual capital by offering employees more convenient access to human resources information and corporate services.

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The issues - Streamline and consolidate

To keep your enterprise running as efficiently and effectively as possible, you need to streamline operations and consolidate systems to save time and resources. The enterprise resource planning solution from IBM and SAP can help you implement the infrastructure you want, providing a low total-cost-of-ownership and room to expand.

The benchmark - Improve your infrastructure

Solutions from IBM and SAP are designed to help your business leverage existing IT resources and utilize scalable hardware, software and applications.

At the heart of SAP Business Suite is SAP NetWeaver—a technology platform that facilitates the integration and alignment of people, information and business processes across organizational and technological boundaries. SAP NetWeaver:

• Provides the foundation for Enterprise Services Architecture, the blueprint that builds on SAP's more than 30 years of enterprise application experience.
• Is based on open technologies and standards.
• Provides full interoperability with Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere® MQ, protecting your investments in those technologies.

The components - A solid IT foundation

The enterprise resource planning solution from IBM and SAP provides you with a solid foundation for your virtually all your enterprise resource planning needs.

As part of the SAP Business Suite, the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning components include:

• SAP NetWeaver—a comprehensive integration and application platform, designed to work with existing systems and software.
• SAP R/3 Enterprise—the enterprise resource planning functionality piece of the SAP Business Suite.
• SAP Financials.
• SAP Human Capital Management.

The solution can also include industry-leading hardware, software and middleware from IBM:

• IBM servers, including:
  • xSeries® Linux servers
  • iSeries® systems
  • pSeries® UNIX® systems
  • zSeries® systems

• IBM DB2® Universal Database™—a scalable, Web-ready database that delivers powerful e-business benefits.
• IBM WebSphere® MQ—market-leading business integration software that connects business software together to form one efficient enterprise by providing an open, scalable, industrial-strength messaging backbone.
• IBM Global Industries consulting and system integration services.

The implementation - IBM and SAP at work

IBM and SAP can help you effectively incorporate enterprise resource planning across your organization. IBM and SAP can help you transform your operations with:

• An end-to-end implementation that includes all necessary hardware, software and applications.
• Open architecture built to industry standards such as HTTP, XML, and Web services and J2EE™ environments.
• Quick integration that leverages existing IT infrastructures.

The cost of ownership - End-to-end savings

The enterprise resource planning solution from IBM and SAP can help your company facilitate the integration of virtually every aspect of your IT infrastructure. You can experience a low total-cost-of-ownership through:

• An end-to-end implementation, saving you time and valuable business resources.
• An open, standards-based architecture, allowing integration with legacy systems and applications to preserve those investments.

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